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of this unscrupulous treachery, the divine torch lighted by Lok ha continued to glow, emitting radiance. As an answer to their perfidious manoeuvrings, Uttar rddha Lok gaccha was originated. The great personalities like Lavaj etc. started preaching and spreading the message of Lok ha - scripture based pure path with renewed vigour and enthusiasm in every nook and corner of the country.
The great fact is that Lok ha neither started a new tradition nor preached a new gospel. He humbly preached the gospel propounded by the omniscient in its true form and asked the people to analyse and judge the preaching of Mah v ra with an unbiased discernment. He did not force or lure the people to accept the great commandments of Mah v ra, but only advised them to analyse and then decide the line of action. Presenting a S tra from cr mga S tra, 4th chapter and 1st Udde aka, which is considered as the pillar stone of Jain religion, in one of his 58 dictums he asked not kill any being out of the six kinds of life forms for reasons what so ever, and not inflict any type pain to any one. I ( rama a Lord Mah v ra) am proclaiming this truth. All the T rthamkaras of the past, present and future, do preach the same. This doctrine of ahims is immaculate, immutable and eternal truth. Lok ha did not add a single word of his own to it.
Pr vacandra Sri, who lived 56 years after Lok ha, was a great scholar in scriptures and wrote Tabbas (literal translation into the local language of Gujarat) on scriptures. He not only described the above mentioned S tra in his 'Uts tra Tirask ra N m - Vic ra Pa ah a' text, he went a step ahead to Lok ha and even wrote -
Buddham jajjara theram, jo gh yai jamala mu hi Taru o
J ris tassa veya , Egimd Samgha a eT ris //
i.e. - If a sturdy and robust youth hits with all his might on the chest of a feeble, decrepitold man, the old man experiences unbearable, inexplicable pain. The single-sense being undergoes the same terrible pain when it gets stamped or even when it is just touched. The type of infliction the single-senseorgan living beings experience, when they are being tortured is clearly mentioned in the scriptures as - when a dumb, deaf, lame, disabled person by birth cannot speak out (express), yell or flee when he was pierced by the sharp edge of a spear, but experiences similar severe pain that a healthy man with all organs
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